Modern Slavery in Electronics-Conflict Minerals from the Congo

[Alex_Spider]

Modern Slavery in Electronics: Facts About Slave-Mined Conflict Minerals from the Congo

The electronics we use every day, could have a sinister side - they could contain slave-mined minerals in the Congo, otherwise known as 'Conflict Minerals.'

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1SOhlTyos



Slavery in Your Pocket: The Congo Connection

Child slaves speak out about horrible abuses at mines in the Congo as Free the Slaves investigates how products we use every day are tainted by slavery.

Freetheslaves.net/Congo

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fhi-PGa_k



The Price of Precious

The minerals in our electronic devices have bankrolled unspeakable violence in the Congo.


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/conflict-minerals/gettleman-text

I'm so sick of this world. Nearly all of our every day actions consist of making our fellow humans life a living hell. Especially we in the Western world. And all for what? Just to get a shiny new version of tech every 6 months or so, while our slaves that provide for us don't even have basic needs. Trully depressing.

 

[Doctor Evo]

I'm so sick of this world.

...so does anybody else want to make the reference, or should I?

 

[Teelie]

I think this might be Spider's optimistic breaking point.

 

[Darthphere]

...so does anybody else want to make the reference, or should I?

Haha what a story Mark.

 

[Alex_Spider]

...so does anybody else want to make the reference, or should I?

Not really. There are many of us who don't pay attention to foreign world issues, like humanitarian crises and exploitation of children. Hell, some of us don't give a damn about the problems we face in the place we live in. So, yeah I don't think everyone is caring on the same level.

 

[Doctor Evo]

Haha what a story Mark.

 

[Doctor Evo]

Not really. There are many of us who don't pay attention to foreign world issues, like humanitarian crises and exploitation of children. Hell, some of us don't give a damn about the problems we face in the place we live in. So, yeah I don't think everyone is caring on the same level.

You should throw away all of your electronics. Set an example.

 

[Alex_Spider]

You should throw away all of your electronics. Set an example.

Unfortunately that is somenthing I can't do. What I can do is reduce my consumerist needs to the basic ones. Yeah I know it isn't much of a diference but still it is something. If many of us minimized their consumption habits, we would achieve a small change.